I work in both clinical trials for onc and on a heme/onc floor and...yeah.

But at least we aspire to provide a good death, as opposed to grandma up in the ICU who's had a tube in every orifice and coded, like, six times in the last ten years but she's going to be better and nexto new next week!!

Pine as in the pine box Orthdox Jews are burried in? As a Jewish person, who is not, Orthodox I have family that is. The very first experience I had with them was at the funeral of my great aunt (my grandfather's eldest sister--he was the only boy too). So, I told him to sit up front with his faily and I would go sit in back with some of the other cousins (2nd and 3rd). The pine box freaked him out but I thought he was okay (he was sharp nothing wrong with the brain) but just to be sure I made sure I had him sitting on the correct side of the sanctuary. All of a sudden there was a lot of whispering, pointing, giggling and some pure disgust. Everyone wanted to know who that man was sitting up front on the wrong side? I just smiled, bowed me head, and said, "That would be her (the deceased) brother, my grandfather! I don't know who was more embarassed? Me or the people who were offenisve finding out that he belonged to me? LOL!

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